Oh man, it's December in California and the Red Flag fire warnings are up. *sigh*

@agterrane You mean there are big fires again in California? In December? Is that an usual season to have those big fires at?

@trinsec Right now, it's just a warning to be careful because fires can occur (Very dry bushland, high winds). If everyone is careful, no fire. Yes, it was unusual, but now because of climate change, it's normal. Fire season used to be from about April to October. Now it's year-round.

@agterrane Oh darn. I guess we should be very happy with our outright awfully wet (and miserable) winters here in the Netherlands, huh?

@trinsec Well, the upside is it's fairly sunny year round. I'm in Northern California, and it's a little wetter here. We used to have cold, foggy, rainy winters here but....We cleaned the air (dirty air has particles to make fog) and climate change (the storms don't come to us, so drought).

@agterrane Northern California is still fairly Northern Africa levels, heh. Kinda crazy to think of that, but there you go. ;)

@trinsec I school, we were always taught that California has a Mediterranean climate. Lots of Italians moved here back in the day and they started the whole wine-making thing (they knew a good thing when they saw it).